1. Any names I use on this blog will not be real names. They will be names I come up with based on personalities, or by names they request me to give, or simply some sort of name I see that pops up a lot.
2. The title was definitely one suggested to me by two people here.
3. My fixation on the devices in this post aren't to make fun but to point out a difference in something that I can't say I ever noticed before... and has turned into something I can't unsee even if I were to try.
Without further ado, I'll now explain why this some-what obsession has become so amusing to me.
WARNING! SPOILERS!
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Sadly, when it comes to movies, I'm farther behind than most people in their mid-twenties. It was only just this summer that I saw The Naked Gun for the first time. It was definitely one of the funniest movies that I'd ever seen. There were also two scenes that stuck out to me the most.
The first was during a car chase. During the action sequence, a Driver's Test is going on. When the student gets cut off by a semi-truck, the teacher, in a very monotone voice, teaches the girl how to give a proper middle-finger.
The second one was during the first date of Leslie Nielson and the leading lady. His line, "I practice safe sex." Here I am, thinking it's going to be some awkward sex scene with an old guy, and it turns out they're in condom suits!
Until I came to China, though, that movie hadn't popped in my mind very much. Then I found myself in a few stores with Little-Bit that the image appeared in my mind over and over again. Why? Because of the condom boxes.
In some ways, they're the same as American ones. Colorful, shiny, and sometimes with texture. The condom boxes here were just like that, but they also had something else that actually made me look at them... Cartoons. A cartoon drawing of a rubber. But that wasn't what made me think, "What am I looking at?" No, it was adding sunglasses and a mouth like it had some sort of attitude that made me look.
What really got me was a picture of one with wings and a bow and arrow. Immediately, I thought back to The Naked Gun. In my mind, I didn't just see a weird cartoon. No, no, no. What I saw was Leslie Neilson in that condom suit, flying around like Cupid in sunglasses and a bow and arrow. And of course, Leslie Nielson is speaking as he's flying around in his safe suit.
"Practice safe sex," he says in a serious voice while holding up the bow, "and hope the shots are blank."
And I may have ruined your brains forever with that. Yes, another post that lives up to the name, "Awkward Moments in China."
China pic of the day!
Cheating a little bit by showing pizza, but it came from the fanciest restaurant I've been in yet... Pizza hut.
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